Pre-Stop Build Scrimmages - What Have We Learned So Far?

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

One thing @ Rally that stuck out was some teams sported some serious cannon that fired Frisbees at a shocking rate of speed. While FIRST has cracked down on Human Players unleashing an insane hail of Frisbees I actually wonder how soon is it FIRST issues a speed limit for firing Frisbees like they did with the robots back in 2006.

An expert in this can prove me wrong, but I don't think there is nearly as much of a risk in the speed of disc shots, because unlike HP shots, frisbee shots are at least guided towards a single point, and any wheeled shooter not shooting full court will have a fairly straight shot, only hitting shielded areas. Also, due to the height of the goal, shots don't seem to really be going as super high up as HP shots were, and any team that repeatedly shoots discs past the nets will be penalized-thus minimizing the risk of super fast shots leaving the field.

Excuse my confusing writings, obvious late night last night

[viveksridhar]

Has anyone experienced issues with driving back to the feeder station to load frisbees and then going back to the other side to score? Like was there enough room to drive back and forth without significant interference?

It seems to me that this year, with the relative ease of scoring (in at least one goal) inherent to this competition, most teams will focus on offense rather than defense, is that something that's been observed?

Also, is there generally room to score from around the side of the pyramid? Our robot can score from ~20ish feet away, so we'd have to score from the side of the pyramid at an angle, are there any issues with blocking/traffic in those areas?

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by viveksridhar

Has anyone experienced issues with driving back to the feeder station to load frisbees and then going back to the other side to score? Like was there enough room to drive back and forth without significant interference?

It seems to me that this year, with the relative ease of scoring (in at least one goal) inherent to this competition, most teams will focus on offense rather than defense, is that something that's been observed?

Also, is there generally room to score from around the side of the pyramid? Our robot can score from ~20ish feet away, so we'd have to score from the side of the pyramid at an angle, are there any issues with blocking/traffic in those areas?

There didn't seem to be any significant problems. As you can see in this video the middle is wide open enough for robots to go back and forth with ease.